Proper solution for "cannot move location counter backwards" when building tests?

[Sebastian Huber]

Hello Peter,

On 2014-02-13 23:11, Peter Dufault wrote:
> I'm testing the phycore_mpc5554 against the latest head, not too successfully.

which issues do you have?

> One hopefully easy problem is that with tests enabled I get this problem building file system tests, including fsdosfsname01:
>
> linkcmds.base:329 cannot move location counter backwards (from 4002c564 to 40010000)
>
> There's a thread about this last November ("Powerpc/mpc55xxevb build failure") with the suggestion that this be conditional on BSP_SMALL_MEMORY.  I don't consider 8MB of memory small, but I'm showing my age, the younger people are spitting out their lattes at that.

I think the problem is the flash size.  How big is it?

> What's a proper solution?  Should the mpc55xxevb be marked BSP_SMALL_MEMORY and the test made conditional on that? I'm using a bad solution, "make -k".
>
> Looking forward to 4.11 release ASAP but with a fully-functional phycore_mpc5554 -
>
> Peter
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> Peter Dufault
> HD Associates, Inc.      Software and System Engineering
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